Hickey.



P. T. ZIZINIA.

HICKEY.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 28, 1913.

1 ,Q8Q,617 Patented Dec.9, 1913.

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PAUL T. ZIZINIA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

HICKEY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL T. ZIZINIA, a citizen of the United States, residing at 225 West Eightieth street, in the borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hickeys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hickeys used to connect an insulating joint to an electrolier or similar fixture and its novelty consists in the construction and adaptation of the parts as ,will be more fully hereinafter pointed out. y

In the electric wiring in a building it is obligatory to intcrpose an insulating member between an electrolier or other similar fixture and the service Wires to prevent the carrying of a short circuit into the building thereby causing danger of a conflagration. The usual electric light assemblage consists of a rojecting stud which may be an insulating oint, a hickey and a depending Wire conduit all assembled in line in the order named and usually connected together by thread joints forming a continuous assemblage. The hickey of such a combination is a small tubular device provided with apertures in its sides to permit of the wires which are carried into the interior of the conduit to pass to the insulating joint.

The hickey in common use to-day, so far as the same is known to me, is made with a substantially continuous vertical bore from end to end and is provided with an opening or openings in its sides which are usually unsplit. To assemble this combination the wires projecting outwardly from the wire conduit are passed in at the bottom and out at the top going completely through the hickey, which is then screwed into the conduit. In order to withdraw the wires from a hickey of this kind so that connection can be made with the insulating joint, it is necessary, by means of a hook or similar tool, to fish the wires out through the side opening or openings in the hickey.- As the wires are apt to be stiff and not easily bent it not infrequently happens that the insulation isstripped from the wires in attempting to draw them out through the side opening or openings, and a re-wiring of the system is thereby necessitated. In order to overcome this difliculty forms 'of'the old Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 28,

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

1913. Serial No. 751,280.

hickey were devised in which slots were cut extending. from one of its ends to a side opening thereby permitting the wires after they had been passed through the hickey; to be drawn down into such a slot and spread outwardly thus avoiding the necessity of fishing the wires out through the side opening, but the presence of this slit weakened the device to such an extent that a reinforcing then became necessary and this was attempted by various devices, one of which was an encircling ring. All of this construction has added to the cost and difliculty of assembling the parts without in reality adequately accomplishing the desired result, Because of the long leverage incident to the length of chandelier and similar fixtures.any weakening of the connecting joints is undesirable, and it has long been desirable to provide a hickey which would have the advantage of permitting the wires to be drawn out through the side opening or openings without difficulty and which, at the same time, would not be weakened by the presence of slots in the body of the device. lt is also desirable that a hickey should be so constructed that it may readily be as sembled with insulating joints and wire conduits having different sized threads or ditl'erent sized apertures, and it is the purpose of this invention to provide a hickey by the use of which the wires can be readily drawn from the connected fixture through the body of the hickey to the outside and,

at the same time, to provide one which may be used with insulating joints and wire con duits having different sized threaded connections.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of an electric light assemblage including a hickey embodying the invention; Fig.

2 is a Vertical central section through the same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical central section through a modified form of the device in which the connections to the insulating joint and the wire conduit are shown as threaded recesses instead of threaded projecting necks.

In the drawings, 10 represents the body of the hickey which, in the form illustrated, is made triangular in cross section. The body of whatever shape is closed at the top and is provided with means for connecting it'to the usual insulating joint indicated at 20 and which means in the form of the hickey illustrated, comprises restricted extween these openings there is provided a passageway or central'bore 14:. It will be observed that the opening 12 is opposite the neck 11, the opening 120 is opposite the neck 111 and the opening 121 is opposite the neck 110', and it is preferred that the external 7 threads of these necks and the internal threads in these openings or recesses should correspond so that the oppositely disposed connecting devices may be used with suitable and corresponding insulating joints and wire conduits. 4

In use the wires leading from the fixture or wire conduit pass into the hollow passageway 14 ofthe hickey and are reverted to the right or left, as the case may be, through one of the openings provided for that purpose.

I naturally do not confine myself to a hickey having a substantially triangular shape in cross section. It may be of any suitable shape in cross section provided it does not depart from the principles of the invention.

In Fig. 3 there is illustrated a modified form of the device in which intermediate the openings 12 and 120 and 121 in place of the outwardly extending necks there are provided recesses 210, 21 and 211 which are internally threaded and adapted to be con-- nccted to the insulating joint or the wire conduit in substantially the same manner as before, it being understood, of course, that in order to secure such connection the insulated joint would have to be provided with a projecting neck, or there would have to be provided a connecting independent nipple. What I claim is:

1. A hickey, comprising a hollow body and a plurality of spaced openings communicating with the interior of the body and extending through difier'ent sides of said body and having means for connection with a wire conduit, said body having a plurality of devices respectively for connection with a supporting member, the openings not in use in connection with the wire conduit constituting exits for wires extending into the body and wire conduit.

2. A hickey, comprising a hollow body and a plurality of spaced openings communicating with the interior; of the body, extending through different sides thereof and having means for connection with a wire conduit, said body having a plurality of devices respectively for connection with a supporting member and being located between the openings, the openings not in use in connection with the wire conduit constituting exits for wires extending into the body and wire conduit.

3. A hickey, comprising a hollow body anda plurality of spaced'openings communicatin with the interior of the body, and extending through different sides them of, means associated with the body for connection with a wire conduit,'said body also having a plurality of devices respectively for connection with a supporting member and each being located opposite one of the openings and between other of the openings, the openings not-in use with the wire conduit constituting exits for wires extending into the body and wire conduit.

4. A hickey comprising a the walls thereof and all of the apertures intercommunicating through the hollow body projecting necks being provided between each pair of apertures in succession around the body.

5. A hickey comprising a hollow body with apertures therein, and provided. with projecting necks one opposite each aperture and between other apertures, each aperture hollow body: with apertures symmetrically arranged in and neck being suitably threaded to connect with an insulating 'joint or fixture, the threads being of diiferent sizes in the several apertures and on the several necks.

6. A hickey comprising a hollow body provided with a plurality of symmetrically arranged openings, each adapted to receive and connect with a wire conduit and also provided with means opposite each opening to connect with an insulating joint,- the openings not used for the wire conduit connection being adapted to permit of the exit of wires passing into the same from the wire conduit.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE G. CAMPBELL, EDNA A. MORELAND. 

